Editorial Feedback

May 30, 2001

NO JEST. I'm looking at the May 24 editorial page. in the quote block in the middle of your editorial, "Why Mercury?" the last word very glaringly stands out as being misspelled. You have congestion spelled "conjestion." shame on you. You should do better with your spelling.

John N.P. Reisbeck

Editor's response: You're right. And we almost always do.

RICKY CULLIPHER. Ricky Cullipher's trial trashed due process of law (Editorials, May 26). True conservatives cherish due process. They remember it took centuries to create. Yet Virginia's head lawyer, Attorney General Mark Earley, forgot. He joined the other powerful radicals who ignored this stark injustice. Many people claim the honorable name conservative. but many so-called conservatives will fail to hold Earley accountable for this radicalism as he seeks to become our governor.

Steve Corneliussen Jr.

Editor's response: Not to disagree, but a sense of justice would also have helped. Due process alone is a protection, but it can be followed faithfully to an unjust outcome. To paraphrase a scholar of justice, in hell there will be nothing but laws, and due process will be diligently observed.